‘We’re Just Not Into Her’ – Hillary Clinton Losing Support of Millennials
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
What’s up with the millennials? The Clinton campaign may have felt a jolt after seeing the front page headline from this morning’s Wall Street Journal which read, “Millennials Have Cooled on Hillary Clinton, Forcing a Campaign Reset.“
Traditionally, the 21 to 35 year old age bracket (born 1980-1993 in our epoch) has been a bastion of the Democratic Party. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican Donald J. Trump among under 35’s plummeted in the month of August from 25 points… down to only 5 points. Pretty shocking, but even more so in a week that has seen a Hillary health scare, resulting in Trump surging ahead of Clinton in multiple national polls, and also in perennially pivotal electoral patches like Florida and Ohio.
So what’s up? Why can’t Hillary chill with the millennials, like Barack once did?
Back when she was battling Bernie Sanders in the primaries, Clinton pulled out all the stops for the millennials – even promising America’s students a “debt free” college experience including free university tuition. Somehow, Hillary’s sizzle has failed to the Bern with this crucial demographic. As much as they would love for it to be true, even the most optimistic of students knows that free tuition for all is nothing more than pie in the sky, with some left feeling patronized in a way that voters have come to expect from desperate politicians making increasingly desperate promises on the campaign trail these days. What’s really being overlooked by Democrat Party elites here though, is the uncomfortable truth that the old party ways simply aren’t working anymore, and the Clinton campaign is not viewed (as Colin Powell calls it) transformative, and thus, millennials are finding it difficult to get behind it.
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